Butt Ice (Bicyclists United To Travel Iowa's Cycling Experience) was born out of
the deep recesses of the demented minds of Team Captain and Bike Guru Web Wilke
and Co-Captain and Team Pharmacists Lt. Dan Husienga. Web and Lt. Dan, along with
Dan's wife Patty, Team Nurse and Official Team 70's Goddess, had ridden several
RAGBRAI's together, but had never been able to form a sustaining, cohesive team.
They knew they had to form a serious RAGBRAI team founded on the beliefs that all butts
are NOT created equal, that certain butts deserve recognition, and that beer can have a
substantial effect on deciding which butts deserve said recognition.

Dan is credited as being the brainchild of the Butt Ice name. During several
hours of intense brainstorming and brain-cell killing at the traditional Butt Ice
meeting place, Cafe Northwest in Ames, Dan was struck with an idea. The name for the new team,
besides having the requisite butt reference also needed to convey the real RAGBRAI
experience: the pain and agony that inevitably comes around mid-week of RAGBRAI,
when climbing into the saddle seems like a cruel torture excercise, but a
necessary one if riders want to win the prize of a nice, cool tall one to alleviate the
pain. Leaning back in his chair, and drawing in a deep gulp of hops and barley, Dan's eyes
fell upon what can only be recognized as Devine Intervention: a Bud Ice beer mirror on the
wall above their table. As the deeper significance of his discovery sank in, Dan
solemnly rose up out of his chair, raised his glass, and spoke: "Butt Ice". Turning from
his gaze at a waitress, Web, smiled a satisfying grin and agreed, "Yes - but what can it
stand for?" Without hesitation, Dan spoke a second time: "Bicyclists...United...To
Travel....Iowa's Cycling..........Experience!"  Perfection. Absolute and undeniable.

The first fledgling year, 1995, Butt Ice had only five or six week-long riders - but they had
made their mark. Over the next six years, Butt Ice grew to encompass nearly twenty riders
as the legend that is Butt Ice became synonymous with inflatable beer hats, free Budweiser
merchandise from distributors car trunks, squawking penguins, triumphant cheers of "Butt Ice!",
and, most importantly, "icing" of the finest backsides on the Ride by team members.

The ritual of Icing is as mysterious as it is offending. No one is exactly sure
when or how the first icing took place. In time and over the miles, a few simple guidelines
have come to be accepted as Truth - Here Is Wisdom: icing consists of applying team
stickers to the butts of members of the opposite sex during RAGBRAI, the sticker goes ONLY on
the butt, one should ask the owner of the butt prior to icing it, naked butts are
preferred, only the best butts on RAGBRAI get iced, if in doubt - team members should convene an brief,
informal meeting to deem a given butt acceptable for icing. A few Amendments to these
rule apply: it doesn't have to be during RAGBRAI if team members are gathered for a cycling
activity including, but not limited to, training rides, training drinking, trips to the
bike shop, espresso, or team meetings at Cafe Northwest. Also, if one of the finest butts on RAGBRAI
is not immediately available, and if a large crowd is not nearby, other butts may be
iced if absolutely necessary, i.e. to obtain free beer, hot showers, food, sex, etc. In general, icing
people under 18 is frowned upon unless they have a fake ID that shows they're 21. Stickers may be
applied to breasts only after one has been duely applied to the butt first. Stickers are
never to be wasted on roadkill, espresso or smoothie carts, live animals, church ladies, or other
non-fine-butt cases.

Butt Ice Commandments:

1. NEVER PASS FREE BEER

2. JAIL SUCKS

3. FIRST BAR ON THE LEFT

4. Refer to rule #1

Amendments:

1. GIVE JEN AMPLE MANEUVERING ROOM

2. NOTHING BEATS MIKE'S BIKE

3. WEB RULES!!!!